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Edensor

EDENSOR, a parish in the hundred of HIGH-PEAK,
county of DERBY, 2¼ miles (E.N.E.) from Bakewell,
containing, with Chatsworth and the hamlet of Pilsley,
752 inhabitants. The living, formerly a vicarage, rated
in the king's books at £4. 13. 4., is now a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry of Derby, and diocese
of Lichfield and Coventry, and in the patronage of
the Duke of Devonshire. The church, dedicated to
St. Peter, contains several monuments of the noble
family of Cavendish. The village is situated entirely
within Chatsworth Park. The Duke of Devonshire
contributes £30 a year in aid of a school, which
sum, with £5. 12. per annum arising from an enclosure
of waste land, and the interest of £50, the
gift of John Phillips in 1734, is appropriated for the
instruction of sixty children.

CHATSWORTH, a liberty (extra-parochial), in the
hundred of HIGH-PEAK, county of DERBY, 3 miles
(E.N.E.) from Bakewell. The population is returned
with the parish of Edensor. Chatsworth, as part of the
duchy of Lancaster, is within the jurisdiction of a court
of pleas held at Chapel en le Frith, for the recovery of
debts under 40s. The splendid mansion of Chatsworth
was begun in 1687, and completed in 1706, by William
Cavendish, first duke of Devonshire, upon the site of a
more ancient edifice, which was taken down about the
close of the seventeenth century, and in which Mary,
Queen of Scots, passed a considerable portion of her
long captivity in England.

Sir John Gell garrisoned
it for the parliament, in 1643, but capitulated to the
Earl of Newcastle, who, in December of the same year,
placed Col. Eyre, with a sufficient force, therein, to
hold it for the king. In 1645, it withstood the siege
of four hundred parliamentarians under Col. Gell, who,
at the expiration of fourteen days, raised the siege,
and retired to Derby. After the battle of Blenheim, in
1704, Marshal Tallard, the French general, having been
made prisoner on that occasion, was sent to reside here.

PILSLEY, a hamlet in the parish of EDENSOR, hundred
of HIGH-PEAK, county of DERBY, 2 miles (N.E.)
from Bakewell, containing 243 inhabitants. Pilsley
is in the honour of Tutbury, duchy of Lancaster, and
within the jurisdiction of a court of pleas held at Chapel
en le Frith every third Tuesday, for the recovery of
debts under 40s.